Launcelot Harrison
Australian zoologist and entomologist
Launcelot Harrison (13 July 1880, 20 February 1928) was an Australian zoologist, entomologist and NSW rugby union player who held the Challis Chair in Zoology from 1922 until his untimely death from a cerebral haemorrhage. He married writer Amy Mack on 29 February 1908. His 1915 study found that host and parasite body sizes tended to positively co-vary; this finding was dubbed Harrison's rule.
During World War I he served as an advising entomologist (ranked Lieutenant) to the British Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.
His students included Claire Weekes, the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Sydney.
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